[PATCH] fix OOM killing of swapoff These days, if you swapoff when there isn't enough memory, OOM killer gives "BUG: scheduling while atomic" and the machine hangs: badness() needs to do its PF_SWAPOFF return after the task_unlock (tasklist_lock is also held here, so p isn't going to be freed: PF_SWAPOFF might get turned off at any moment, but that doesn't really matter). Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
diff --git a/mm/oom_kill.c b/mm/oom_kill.c index 6969cfb..b278b8d 100644 --- a/mm/oom_kill.c +++ b/mm/oom_kill.c
@@ -61,12 +61,6 @@ } /* - * swapoff can easily use up all memory, so kill those first. - */ - if (p->flags & PF_SWAPOFF) - return ULONG_MAX; - - /* * The memory size of the process is the basis for the badness. */ points = mm->total_vm; @@ -77,6 +71,12 @@ task_unlock(p); /* + * swapoff can easily use up all memory, so kill those first. + */ + if (p->flags & PF_SWAPOFF) + return ULONG_MAX; + + /* * Processes which fork a lot of child processes are likely * a good choice. We add half the vmsize of the children if they * have an own mm. This prevents forking servers to flood the